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Simple Living Works! Monthly Digest
Updated Weekly
Month 1, 2019
In This Issue:
- What's NOW with SLW!
- What Others Are Doing
- What's Happened
- More!
What's NOW with SLW!
What Others Are Doing - So Much Help!
I gladly pass along links from simple living bloggers, podcasters, coaches and others. Some faith-based, some not. You needn't read them all. Choose FIVE links -- including SLW! -- to investigate.
For links to earlier entries, check the previous months' digests.
- Alternative Radio Podcast (David Barsamian)
- Becoming Minimalist (Joshua Becker)
- Center for a New American Dream
- The Common Good Podcast
- The Common Good Podcast #102: Fair Trade in Schools and Congregations (12/1/18)
- The Common Good Podcast #101: Jubilee Circles in Mexico (11/1/18)
- The Common Good Podcast #100: The Casady's at the Calif. Climate Summit (10/1/18)
- TCG Podcast Episode 99: Jay Moses, Interfaith Church
- SLW! Podcast Episode 115: Grace Gyori,Moving from Christians imperialism to liberation for all--a missionary's journey
- TCG Podcast Ep. 98: Author/activist John Dear, part 2, of pace e bene on Peace and NonViolence
- SLW! Podcast Episode 114: Author/activist John Dear, part 1, of pace e bene on Peace and NonViolence
- TCGP Podcast Episode 97: Bill Ryerson, part 2, of Population Media Center on Reducing Population Using Methods That Work
- SLW! Podcast Episode 113: Bill Ryerson, part 1, of Population Institute on Crises Caused by Population
- SLW! Podcast Episode 112: Susan Taylor, Part 3, of Just Money Advisors on her new book 'What About Our Money?' on Giving and Investing // Susan Taylor, Part 2, on Matters of the Heart // SLW! Podcast Episode 111: Susan Taylor, Part 1, on Wrestling with Systems
- TCGP Episode 96: Bonnie Tarwater of Church for Our Common Home
- TCGP Episode 94: Health Care for All Calif.
- TCGP Episode 93: Don Hall of TransitionUS
- Ep. 92-Richard Lawrence on The Power of White in a Multi-Color Humanity (2/1/18)
- Ep. 91-Derek & Nancy Casady of Climate Mobilization: Climate Crises Are Moving Fast! They're Big! And They Require a WWII Size Mobilization (1/1/18)
- Ep. 90-Ulrich Duchrow: Importance of Radicalizing Our Reforms So We Create a Culture of Life (12/1)
- Ep. 89: Sr. Shirley Fineran: 21st Century Slave Trade—Helping Victims Recover from Human Trafficking: (11/1)
- Ep. 88: Paul K. Chappell: Distinguishing Violence from Aggression in Living & Teaching Nonviolence (10/1)
- Community Solutions: Founded in 1940, this non-profit organization advocates for small communities and the benefits of face-to-face relationships. Since 2003, the focus has been to provide resources for low-carbon living and to inspire collective, cooperative solutions in the face of peak energy and climate change.
- Creation Justice CAPSULES: News and Opportunities for Christians Doing Creation Justice
- E-The Environmental Magazine
- Earth Island Journal (Earth Island Institute): Latest News // Current Issue
- Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse) NEW -- Made for These Times song for Ladies Sewing and Resistance Society
- Lead sheet with melody line (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- Full lyrics (downloadable PDF @ http://www.earthmama.org/)
- video (1 minute) of singing and sewing
https://youtu.be/NQjZ4eeVTWs
- video (6 minute) including wonderful short interviews with sewers explaining WHY they will be marching, some for the first time ever in this kind of activism. Song plays the last minute. https://youtu.be/IJiNZcYc428
Blessings, Joyce (Earth Mama) //
Website, Songbooks, YouTube videos; Whole Enchi-Mama on a USB Thumb drive, Standing on the Shoulders music video, sheet music offerings // SLW! Podcast
Eco-Justice Ministries (Peter Sawtell) // Voluntary Simplicity archive // SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast #66
Frugalwoods: Financial independence and simple living featured on PBS NewsHour, Sun., March 11
GodSpace (Christine Sine) // SLW! Podcast
The Good Stuff your dose of what's working in the world from The Story of Stuff Project!
Green Child eMagazine: Simplify for Happier, Calmer Kids
The Homesteading Guide Daily: Exploring life off the grid.
Jubilee Economics / Casa Jubileo (Lee Van Ham & Gerald Iversen)
A Living Earth Economy (David Korten - Yes! Magazine): How we can make peace with nature, realize the value of living wealth, and return to local, self-organized rule.
Living Lightly (Susan Vogt on living more simply but abundantly): 365+ Days of Give-Aways - Finding good homes for no longer needed items rather than just putting them in the trash //SLW! Podcast // SLW! Podcast: Lent
Dear Friends,
My journey into living more lightly has taken me beyond giving away tangible 'things' like clothes, household goods, and money to letting go of intangibles like time, memorabilia, online clutter, etc. I now continue my Spring blog summary of intangibles by focusing on letting go of undesirable attitudes that flow from pride or selfishness. They may not clutter my home but they weigh down my spirit. For example:
Letting Go of Control--Being responsible is good, BUT when does it bleed into being over-responsible? How can we discern the difference? Practice forgiving myself for the inevitable mistakes I make in life.
Purging for a Cause--I throw this one in lest all this intangible stuff become just too heavy and emotional to handle. Sometimes another's project gives us an easy way to give away extra stuff around the home. Welcome the opportunity.
Too Many Words--Words are important, BUT being too wordy can cloud the main message. Remember: when a verbal message conflicts with a non-verbal message (tone, facial expression, or action) the non-verbal message is stronger.
Let Go of Trivial Judgments--This post allowed me to vent some of my pet peeves so I could let go of them and move on to more important causes that warranted outrage with evil.
To Make Room for Constructive Judgments--Although I haven't totally rid myself of petty annoyances, trying to let go of the trivial stuff has made space to focus more energy on the important stuff. I suggest 7 steps to making positive changes in our world.
Please leave comments on my blog about how you deal with these life issues. Together, we're a genius.
Fondly,
Susan
PS: I've been pruning the right hand column of my blog posts by moving many old posts to relevant categories on my home page. Many of the intangible ones like ATTITUDES end up in Beyond Stuff.
Live Simply (Third Way: Celeste Kennel-Shank)
Lutheran Peace Fellowship: Simple Living Resources // SLW! Podcast
The Minimalists podcast (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus). Getting us past the things so we can make room for life's most important things -- which actually aren't things at all.
Mustard Seed Associates (Andy Wade)
New Changemakers: Join the Changemaking Celebration! (Tom Sine)
NorthWest Earth Institute's latest discussion course ebook, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual // Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions // Voluntary Simplicity // SLW! Podcast
The OneEarth Project (Lee Van Ham) // SLW! Podcast
The Pastoral Center/Gospel Living (Paul Canavese) // SLW! Podcast
- They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change by Fr. John Dear
- Teaching Kids to Care for God's Creation: Reflections, Activities & Prayers for Catechists & Families by Sr. Mary Elizabeth Clark, SSJ
Available at: https://pastoral.center/on-care
- Other Simple Living and Ecology resources
- CatholicCreationCare.com - General resources
- CreationCareKids.com - Children's resources
PostConsumers: Find the Satisfaction of Enough / Full Article Library
Prayer & Politiks (Ken Sehested): At the intersection of spiritual formation and prophetic action (weekly)
Share Spend Save: Money+Meaning (Nathan Dungan)
Simple Enough (Bob Sitze) // SLW! Podcast
Simple Living: the Good Life (Janet Luhrs) - Time, Finances, Home-Work, Health
Simple Times (Debi Taylor-Hough): Saving Your Time, Money & Sanity
Simplicity Collective - Let us be pioneers once more (Samuel Alexander)
Simplicity Parenting (Kim John Payne): because it is a beautiful world
Smart and Simple Matters podcast (Joel Zaslofsky of Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent) // SLW! Podcast
NEW--Teach Peace Now
TransitionNetwork.org: Transition Towns--A movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world // TransitionUS.org
TreeHugger: Finding a Greener Future
Upcoming Non-Conform-Freely Celebrations: Sept.-Dec. // Jan.-April
What's Happened
WHOSE Birthday? -- Non-Consumer Christmas Campaign
- Banishing Fake News
- "I Buy Blue. Won't You Too?"
- SLW! Episode 110: Transformational Educator Mark A. Burch, Author of "The Hidden Door: Mindful Sufficiency as an Alternative to Extinction;" "Stepping Lightly: Simplicity for People and the Planet" and "The Simplicity Exercises: A Sourcebook for Simplicity Educators." "Euterra Rising: The Last Utopia" is his debut novel.
- Jerry's Guide: Where to Get Books
- SLW! Episode 109: Richard Heinberg of Post-Carbon Institute
- Bonus Podcast Episode: Richard Lawrence, author of Light, Bright, Damn Near White on the Power of White in a Multi-Color Humanity for Black History Month: Stories and Reflections of a Multi-Racial Black Man's Battles with Racism in America
- SLW! Podcast --Episode 108: Walter Brueggemann on Abundance + More!
- Review of Lee Van Ham's new "From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable," vol. 2 of the "Eden for the 21st Century" Trilogy. Available on Amazon in print and ebook and other locations where you can get the ebook (Nook, iBooks, Kobo). He says, "Hope the book stirs you to write a review, to converse with others, and to help me tell better than I currently do a story for OneEarth living. Wanting to show Earth more love!"
- Banishing "Fake News" // Simpler Living SANITY // I Buy Blue // Healthy Political Practices / Spiritual Disciplines // Post-Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // Collaborators & Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
- New Year's Resolution: I will focus on what I CAN change. I will focus on voluntary simplicity, my choices to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly.
- Activities of the Chief Activist
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